Dastardly Cleverness in the Service of Good
66 episodes - English - Latest episode: about 1 month ago - ★★★★★ - 15 ratingsWinner of national Communicator and W3 Awards: the podcast for people who make progress. Your host: writer, consultant, and national media commentator Spencer Critchley.
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"The President of Forgetting"
March 13, 2024 12:00 - 4 minutes - 9.07 MBAs we risk obliviously repeating catastrophic mistakes others have already made, Spencer Critchley has some thoughts about memory and freedom, from people who know the precious value of both. Excerpt: "Most of us in the U.S. have been spared the necessity of knowing history, and instead have been able to live as if the world was created at our birth. But people in Central and Eastern Europe have already been trammeled by the history that has just now caught up with us. They’ve been trying ...
What's the Real News About Election '24? With Mike Madrid & Zach Friend
February 13, 2024 13:00 - 1 hour - 119 MBIf you wanted to, you could consume nothing but presidential campaign coverage all day every day. But how much of it would leave you feeling better informed about casting what may be the most important vote of your life? Not better informed about the campaign as a sporting event, with all the expert play-by-play, color commentary, and stats. But better informed about questions that may not have easy, satisfying, or entertaining answers? Better prepared to think, and not just react? On this...
Luke Freeman on the promise & challenges of Effective Altruism: how to make giving count
December 22, 2023 08:01 - 1 hour - 97.5 MBBy some measures, well over half of charities do little or no good. When similar charities are compared, the most effective ones can be up to 100 times more effective than the least. And there’s often a big mismatch between where donors direct their support and where the need and potential benefits are greatest. A movement called effective altruism aims to make giving work better by identifying the most effective charities in the world and encouraging donors to support them generously and ...
What Cynics Get Wrong About Politics
October 25, 2023 07:01 - 1 hour - 99.8 MBThere are lots of reasons to be cynical about the crisis in our politics. The trouble is, one of the biggest causes of that crisis is cynicism itself. We should always be skeptical about politics. People aren’t angels, as James Madison reminded us. But skepticism involves checking to find out what’s really going on, good or bad. Cynicism is just assuming that it’s all bad. This is often mistaken for savviness, which lends cool-kids credibility to claims like “all politicians are crooks...
A Hollow Man Vacates the Chair & Other Leadership Lessons, Cautionary & Otherwise, with Kevin Lewis & Zach Friend
October 05, 2023 18:14 - 49 minutes - 80.1 MBA three-way conversation featuring host Spencer Critchley, Kevin Lewis, and Zach Friend on leadership lessons from the ouster of Kevin McCarthy, as compared with far better examples set by Hakeem Jeffries, Nancy Pelosi, and others. It turns out, to the shock of cynics everywhere, that character matters! Kevin was the post-presidency spokesman for former President Barack Obama. During the Obama administration he served at the White House and at the Department of Justice, where he advised At...
Kevin Lewis on AI: Lessons from Working with Meta, Obama, and the DOJ
September 19, 2023 09:26 - 1 hour - 116 MBIf you want to know more about the risks and rewards of artificial intelligence, you could hardly do better than to consult with someone who’s been a senior communications advisor for Facebook, lately known as Meta, the US Department of Justice, and a President of the United States. And that’s what Spencer did for this episode. Kevin Lewis was the post-presidency spokesman for former President Barack Obama. During the Obama administration he served at the White House and at the DOJ, where ...
Katie Davis: What We Really Know About Kids & Tech
July 11, 2023 07:01 - 56 minutes - 91 MBIf you have children in your family, you’re probably worried about what technology might be doing to them. And maybe there’s some hope about what tech might do for them. In this episode, you can get guidance from one of the world's top experts on the subject. Dr. Katie Davis is a researcher and associate professor at the University of Washington, and the director of the university’s Digital Youth lab. She’s been studying technology and children for nearly two decades, starting with her tim...
Joan Esposito: Talk radio for people who want better politics
February 01, 2023 08:01 - 1 hour - 127 MBThe episode before last, Spencer was the guest for a change, interviewed by Joan Esposito, who hosts a liberal talk radio show originating at WCPT-AM in Chicago. This time, Spencer interviews Joan about how she manages to conduct smart, in-depth, live political conversations three hours a day, five days a week — sometimes devoting a full hour to a topic when the standard is a few minutes. We hear what Joan has learned as a radio host, as a TV news anchor, and in other roles, helping people u...
Sam Farr: How Democracy Can Work
December 21, 2022 08:01 - 1 hour - 164 MBSam Farr devoted 44 years of his life to elected office at the local, state, and federal level. That included 24 years as the Congressman for the Central Coast of California, where he grew up in the seaside village of Carmel. Among his inspirations were his father, longtime state legislator Fred Farr; President John F. Kennedy; and the Peace Corps, which he joined as a young man. If that makes him sound like an idealist, that’s accurate, but it’s only half the picture. The other half is...
Why do so many choose tyranny over democracy? Joan Esposito interviews Spencer Critchley
November 29, 2022 08:01 - 43 minutes - 80.5 MBSpencer often talks with Joan Esposito, who interviews him about politics for her show on Chicago's WCPT-AM. This episode of Dastardly Cleverness replays one of those conversations that's especially relevant now. Joan and Spencer focus on why democracy, after all its successes, is now in so much danger from authoritarianism. They talk about: Why so many people are choosing authoritarianism over democracy, mostly on the right but on the left too How the sources of America's division go ...
Les Francis & Lora Lee Martin: Can Democrats Save Democracy?
October 27, 2022 07:01 - 1 hour - 118 MBEven with democracy in grave danger, Democrats are in a close race against the people who are trying to finish it off. How can that be, and what should they do about it? Questions like that have been dominating discussions among a group of some of the country's most senior Democratic Party veterans, including former House Democratic Leader Dick Gephardt, one-time presidential favorite Gary Hart, and until her recent death, former Secretary of State Madeleine Albright. And our two guests ...
Sam Quinones: "America and hope in the time of fentanyl and meth"
October 11, 2022 07:01 - 59 minutes - 109 MBIn many ways, addiction has become a defining feature of life in America. More and more of us have become addicted to drugs like alcohol, heroin, cocaine, and opioids, and to other things increasingly recognized as addictive, like sugar, junk food, and social media. The problem has been growing for decades, but in recent years it has exploded. A record for deaths by overdose was set in 2020, at a level six and a half times higher than just 10 years before. The 2020 record was smashed last ...
Sheri Berman: Is the Game of Democracy Over?
September 08, 2022 11:59 - 49 minutes - 90.5 MBOne way of thinking about democracy is as a game — a game in which freedom, equality, and even lives are at stake. And one way of thinking about the state of our democracy is that one of the two main competitors is no longer playing the game, but trying to destroy it. As with any game, the rules of democracy only matter if we agree they do. Ultimately, we can’t prove that things like civil debate, fair elections, and following the law are good things, we just agree that they are, like we...
Walter Shapiro: Finding the Democrats’ Missing Message
June 16, 2022 07:01 - 59 minutes - 95 MBIt's not just Democrats who need the Democratic Party to remember how to win elections. Democracy does. Spencer's guest this time has some great ideas on where to start, based on his unique, decades-long experience studying politics from the inside and out. Walter Shapiro has reported on 11 presidential campaigns, going back to Ronald Reagan’s landslide defeat of Jimmy Carter in 1980. He’s written for the Washington Post, Newsweek, Time, USA Today, Roll Call, and The New Republic among o...
Russia Expert Jade McGlynn: Putin's Memory War
May 04, 2022 07:01 - 59 minutes - 95.6 MBSpencer's guest this time has fascinating, important insights about Vladimir Putin's "memory war:" a campaign to rewrite history with Russia at the center of the world stage. That campaign is being enacted with horrific violence in Ukraine, but is pursued in different ways around the world, including in the United States. Dr. Jade McGlynn is a senior researcher in Russian Studies at the Middlebury Institute of International Studies, a former lecturer in Russian at Oxford University, and a con...
Lincoln Project Co-Founder Mike Madrid: Latino Voters Have an Urgent Warning for Democrats
March 28, 2022 14:37 - 1 hour - 159 MBMike Madrid is a co-founder of the Lincoln Project, a longtime political consultant for candidates of both parties, and a leading expert on Latino voting. Mike says Latino voters are sounding an urgent alarm for the Democratic Party about how it may lose the presidency and more, by losing its working class base. And Mike believes that’s not just a problem for Democrats: At this time in our history, democracy needs Democrats to win. Mike says the problem is that Democrats have increasingly bec...
Treating People as People, Not Machines: Dr. Rose Kumar on How to Heal Healthcare
December 09, 2021 15:09 - 1 hour - 135 MBThe way we live is also the way we get sick and die: "Lifestyle diseases" are the leading causes of death for Americans, six out of ten of whom have a chronic condition. And yet we treat the symptoms, with expensive drugs and procedures, instead of addressing the causes. After training at top medical schools, our guest Dr. Rose Kumar walked away from a promising career in what she calls our industrialized healthcare system. She says it was killing her to have to treat patients like machine...
Michele Gelfand: What Tight & Loose Cultures Tell Us About the World & Ourselves
November 04, 2021 15:06 - 1 hour - 118 MBIn Singapore, you can face a heavy fine or even jail for offenses like spitting on the sidewalk and importing chewing gum. Meanwhile in New Zealand, a man who hatched himself from a giant egg was appointed the country’s “official wizard.” These are examples of tight and loose cultures. Much of what’s going on in America and the world right now can be understood better through knowing more about tightness and looseness: for example, the appeal of authoritarian leaders, or refusals to follow...
A Guide for the Confused: Just What Is Critical Race Theory?
October 18, 2021 15:56 - 35 minutes - 65.1 MBEven if you see through the phony panic being spun up by Trumpists, some of what you hear from critical race theorists can sound extreme, especially if you don’t know much about the context. In this episode, host Spencer Critchley offers a guide for people who feel confused about Critical Race Theory but aren't sure why.
To Go Forward, We Must First Look Back: Colleen Murphy on Transitional Justice
August 06, 2021 08:00 - 1 hour - 98.4 MBSometimes we can't "just move on." Sometimes we must first confront the truth about the past. According to our guest this time, we can do that through transitional justice. It addresses situations where doing wrong is not the exception, but has been made normal, as has happened in places like South Africa under apartheid, Northern Ireland during the Troubles—and the United States during our long history of racism, and more recent history of democracy under attack. Colleen Murphy is a pr...
Georgina Mendoza McDowell: What We Know About How to Reform Policing
July 15, 2021 19:53 - 54 minutes - 88.3 MBWe already know a lot about how to reform policing: not just to make it more fair, but to make it more effective. It turns out that when police work in partnership with the communities they protect, crime goes down, often way down. Spencer's guest this time is an expert on what works. Georgina Mendoza McDowell is an attorney and public safety expert who has worked with the Obama Justice Department, a White House initiative to reduce youth violence, a Washington DC-based international develop...
Susan Neiman: What America Can Learn From Germany About Facing Its Past
June 08, 2021 04:13 - 57 minutes - 92.7 MBIt may be hard for many Americans to imagine, but there are striking parallels between post-Civil-War America and post-World-War-2 Germany. Our guest this time is an expert on those parallels, and wrote a deeply-researched, insightful, and important book about them. Philosopher Susan Neiman is the author of Learning From the Germans: Race and the Memory of Evil. She describes how Germans finally began what a process of vergangenheitsaufarbeitung, or “working off the past.” It has helped Ge...
Abené Clayton: Guns and Lies
May 15, 2021 20:24 - 1 hour - 140 MBCompared to other high-income countries, our rate of gun deaths per capita is 25 times higher. But much of what Americans think they know about the costs and causes of gun violence is wrong. And few are aware of solutions that have already been shown to work. To help fix that, The Guardian has been running a series of in-depth stories called “Guns and Lies.” Its lead reporter is Spencer Critchley's guest this time, Abené Clayton. Abené Clayton started covering community gun violence in...
Vinz Koller: How to Repair Democracy Now
April 03, 2021 16:32 - 1 hour - 74 MBAmerican democracy is more fragile than many of us ever imagined. But we’ve been neglecting and abusing it so much that maybe the bigger surprise is that it’s lasted as long as it has. A lot of that damage can still be fixed, though—as long as we don’t let the whole thing fall apart first. Spencer's guest Vinz Koller has great insights on what's gone wrong and how we can repair it. Vinz is a political scientist who advises governments on effective policy. He’s long been active in politic...
Living With Big Lies
March 27, 2021 18:13 - 14 minutes - 16 MBEven with Trump out of office, the Republican Party's leaders and media enablers appear determined to keep on living in a world of lies — a place where democracy can't live. As host Spencer Critchley says, it's like life under Soviet domination as described by writers such as Vaclav Havel and Czeslaw Milsoz: "Everything is a lie, everyone knows it's a lie, and everyone goes along with the lie anyway." It consists of the continuing Big Lie of a "stolen election," plus endless others, such a...
The State of Democracy: An Ask Anything Discussion
February 08, 2021 23:04 - 1 hour - 117 MBSpencer Critchley hosts a Zoom-based "Ask Anything" discussion covering the chaos in the Republican Party, how we can both believe in tolerance and make clear moral judgments about something like the Capitol riot, whether better education would be enough to save democracy, what we can learn from other countries that have had to deal with shameful periods in their histories, and what reconciliation might look like. You can find the video version of the conversation at: spencercritchley....
The Psychology of Trumpism
January 26, 2021 18:46 - 18 minutes - 34.2 MBThis time, host Spencer Critchley talks about the psychology of sedition, Trumpism as Freudian dream logic, and the apparent belief of Capitol rioters that they were in a movie. Excerpt: In dream logic, the Capitol riot was the start of a patriotic revolution led by Trump. And it was an anti-American plot led by Antifa and BLM. Dream logic not only doesn’t have to make sense, it destroys sense — and thereby destroys all constraints. If you want to live in a world of dream logic, the mo...
What History Can Teach Us About the Attack on Our Democracy
January 18, 2021 19:25 - 13 minutes - 25.6 MBSpencer Critchley talks about: Why we can’t “just move on” after the Capitol riot - or everything else that’s happened over the past four years. The circle of shared moral values that must encompass democracy and how each of us can and must defend it — starting by simply speaking up. Lessons from other countries, especially about the consequences of silence: Germany, South Africa, Northern Ireland, and France.
The Attack on Democracy
January 11, 2021 20:08 - 12 minutes - 22.8 MBJust about the only thing many of us are thinking about these days is the endangered state of American democracy, especially since the attempted coup on Jan. 6. In this episode, Spencer Critchley offers some of his thoughts, and invites you to share yours. You can do that at these links: Twitter: @scritchley Facebook: spencer.critchley.page dastardlycleverness.com spencercritchley.com Photo: Tyler Merbler, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Zach & Spencer on Election 2020
October 21, 2020 17:22 - 1 hour - 97.5 MBZach Friend is an author and a public policy and communications expert who has worked for Barack Obama and John Kerry’s presidential campaigns, the White House Council of Economic Advisers, the Senate, the House of Representatives, and the Democratic National Committee. He’s been featured on and quoted by CNN, ABC, CBS, MSNBC, Fox News, and many others. In this episode, Zach and host Spencer Critchley talk about not just what’s happening now, but what it all means for where politics is go...
Mike Madrid of the Lincoln Project
October 01, 2020 21:38 - 40 minutes - 74.5 MBThe Lincoln Project is made up of top Republican political consultants who are aiming attack ads at a Republican president. We find out why and how from the Lincoln Project's Mike Madrid. Mike is an expert on Latino voting trends, based on work starting with his master’s thesis at Georgetown University. He’s the former press secretary for the California Assembly Republican leader and the former political director for the California Republican Party. He’s been named as one of America’s Most ...
Ryan Coonerty: Facing Historic Wildfires and a Pandemic—at the Same Time
September 16, 2020 17:07 - 44 minutes - 80.6 MBAs a county supervisor in Santa Cruz County, California, Ryan Coonerty is having to cope with two historic challenges: the national coronavirus pandemic and the catastrophic western wildfires. Both disasters have hit his community hard. In this episode, host Spencer Critchley talks with him about leadership in a time of crisis — or crises.
How to Do Social Impact Marketing That Works
June 24, 2020 19:12 - 42 minutes - 68.1 MBSocial marketing uses the persuasion techniques normally used to sell potato chips, fashion, detergent, cars, and endless other consumer products, but for social good campaigns. Knowing how to do social marketing right is important to nonprofits, socially responsible corporations, and all other purpose-driven organizations — but all too often, it's done wrong. You hear a lot about "sharing information," "educating the public," and "conducting outreach." None of these is likely to have muc...
Patriots of Two Nations: Why Trump Was Inevitable & What Happens Next
April 28, 2020 18:49 - 16 minutes - 26.3 MBThe election of Donald Trump shocked America and the world — and that included Dastardly Cleverness host Spencer Critchley. But Spencer believes now that we should have seen him coming, like we should have seen the approach of this hyper-partisan crisis of democracy we're going through. He's written a book about it, called Patriots of Two Nations: Why Trump Was Inevitable & What Happens Next, available now at Amazon.com. We hear an excerpt from it in this episode. In the book, Spencer e...
How to Communicate in a Crisis, With Brent Colburn
March 30, 2020 15:40 - 52 minutes - 83.6 MBBrent Colburn’s experience goes back to the Al Gore presidential campaign in 2000, through Howard Dean’s campaign in 2004, both Obama campaigns, FEMA, Homeland Security, HUD, and to the Pentagon, where he was in charge of communications for the Defense Department. After that, he led communications for Mark Zuckerberg and Priscilla Chan’s Chan Zuckerberg Initiative, and he is now the Vice President for Communications and Public Affairs at Princeton University. Along the way he was a fellow at...
How Republicans Are Beating Democrats Online, With Mark Barker & Jordan Ruden
February 03, 2020 23:42 - 52 minutes - 84.4 MBA big reason why Donald Trump won in 2016 — and why he may win again in 2020 — is that Republicans now seem to get social media, email, and the rest of the online world better than Democrats do, even though Democrats like Howard Dean and Barack Obama were online pioneers. In this episode, Mark Barker and Jordan Ruden of Craft & Commerce give fascinating insights into how Democrats lost their lead, how Republicans took it over, and what it means for how we all communicate, whether we’re in...
Tracy Palandjian: Changing How Change Happens, With Pay for Success
December 11, 2019 21:43 - 37 minutes - 69.7 MBHost Spencer Critchley talks with Tracy Palandjian, the co-founder and CEO of Social Finance, a nonprofit dedicated to using capital to drive social progress. So far, it has helped direct more than $100 million toward challenges in criminal justice, early childhood education, workforce development, health and homelessness. Social Finance uses the Pay for Success model. At its most basic, that means funding promising social good projects with money from investors, who only get paid pack if ...
Jake Harriman: Fight Terrorism By Ending Extreme Poverty
November 12, 2019 18:51 - 46 minutes - 74.1 MBFor more than seven years, Jake Harriman was a US Marine, serving as a platoon commander in the Infantry and in a Special Operations unit. He was deployed in Southwest and Southeast Asia, the Middle East, and Africa, and served two combat tours in Iraq. During the second tour, he earned the Bronze Star. Jake believed whole-heartedly in the mission of fighting terrorism. But in Iraq he started to question how that should be done. He came to see the greater enemy as extreme poverty: while t...
Jenn Park: What If Government Just Did What Works?
October 07, 2019 21:31 - 31 minutes - 57.5 MBWe hear so many stories about government spending big money without getting results — to the point that many Americans agree with Ronald Reagan's famous assertion that government isn't the solution, it's the problem. That claim was never accurate, as government successes like the Internet, highways, or vaccinations make clear. All the same, though, a lot of government effort does end up wasted, as even people who work in government will readily acknowledge. So, many of them have embraced...
Elin Kelsey: How Optimism Can Help Save the Oceans
August 14, 2019 16:40 - 54 minutes - 100 MB“We recognise and respect the many challenges facing our oceans, yet too often 'doom and gloom' stories are the only kind of ocean news we hear. "The evidence suggests that if we do not balance the bad news with good, and the problems with solutions, we will not motivate people to act.” That’s a quote from the website of Ocean Optimism, a movement to inspire action to save the oceans not by highlighting what’s going wrong, but by sharing stories of what’s going right. Our guest this time...
Jacob Martinez: How Digital NEST Helps Youth Take Flight
July 16, 2019 18:44 - 42 minutes - 78.4 MBJacob Martinez is the founder of Digital NEST, an incubator for young tech talent in the farming towns of Watsonville and Salinas, California. Its graduates make an average starting salary of more than $46,000. The average Watsonville resident makes about $17,000. NEST graduates have been hired not just by local companies but by multi-nationals like software maker Adobe, and the NEST has attracted donations from major venture capitalists. As we hear in this interview with host Spencer Cr...
Alex Gershenson: The Huge Potential of Making Corporate Buying More Sustainable
May 21, 2019 17:51 - 37 minutes - 68.9 MBBig corporations buy what they need from all over the world because they're looking for the best prices. But increasingly, they’re also looking for environmental and social sustainability. For example, McDonald’s has committed to serving only sustainably-sourced coffee at all of its locations by next year. To achieve that it’s buying its coffee from thousands of often small coffee growers. A company in Santa Cruz, California called SupplyShift makes software that helps companies manage...
Patrice Maginnis: How Tech—High & Low—Is Changing the World of the Blind & Visually Impaired
April 23, 2019 18:53 - 49 minutes - 80 MBPatrice Maginnis has experienced life as someone who can see, and as someone who can’t. She was born with retinitis pigmentosa and gradually went blind, losing all usable sight at age 60. Patrice has learned to adapt and to thrive. And she helps others do the same, through her work with the Vista Center for the Blind and Visually Impaired, a nonprofit with locations in Santa Cruz, Palo Alto, and San Jose, California. Vista Center’s mission is to empower people who are blind or visually i...
Saving Democracy: The Way Forward
March 26, 2019 19:18 - 2 hours - 204 MBOur episode this time is a live recording of a terrific panel discussion featuring some very smart people from across the ideological spectrum who have national experience in politics and media. Amanda Renteria, Mike Madrid, Debbie Mesloh, Dan Schnur, Kristin Olsen, and Zach Friend joined host Spencer Critchley at Cabrillo College in Aptos, California to go way beyond the usual talking points and offer deep insights into where we are — and how we go forward. More at dastardlycleverness.c...
Bud Colligan: Social Entrepreneur
February 04, 2019 22:21 - 49 minutes - 79.4 MBBusiness drives our economy — but our guest this episode thinks it can also make society better. Bud Colligan has been part of some of the most successful businesses of our time, including Apple. He’s also a social entrepreneur: he invests in ventures that promise to achieve social good, such as through education, or environmental protection, or inclusive economic development. One example is Pacific Community Ventures, which he co-founded and where he helped raise $100 million for communit...
The New Congress: Be Right or Do Right?
January 10, 2019 01:21 - 31 minutes - 49.8 MBCan we look at the top priorities for the new Congress without talking about likability, who curses more, or a dancing video? Yes we can. On Dastardly Cleverness: Politics Edition it's not about the horse race, or the latest outrage, but how to make politics do what it’s supposed to do: make our lives better, not just more entertaining — or depressing. In this episode host Spencer Critchley brings brings back a previous guest and introduces a new one. Dastardly Cleverness veteran Zach F...
Lenny Mendonca: Why Progressive Federalism May Be the Answer to America's Problems
December 16, 2018 21:36 - 41 minutes - 65.8 MBLenny Mendonca, a former senior partner with McKinsey & Company and a professor at the Stanford Graduate School of Business, is the co-founder of New America, a self-described “think and action tank." In this fascinating conversation with host Spencer Critchley, Lenny explains why he believes progressive federalism is the solution to our biggest challenges, including climate change, the rise of artificial intelligence, the future of work, and the health of our democracy. More at the epis...
Beyond the Horse Race: What the Election Can Teach Us About Making Change
November 14, 2018 21:02 - 48 minutes - 66.9 MBIt was called the most important election of our lifetimes, but so much of the coverage has been the same old horse race stuff. Not on Dastardly Cleverness, though: in this episode we dig deep with experts who have worked with Barack Obama, John McCain and the Democratic National Committee, among others. Kevin Lewis was one of the first people to join Barack Obama’s presidential campaign back in 2007. He went on to serve as the White House Director of African-American Media, as press secr...
Highlights From Our First Year
October 02, 2018 16:00 - 53 minutes - 73.8 MBWe’re celebrating our first season with highlights from the past year! It's an episode full of gifts of insight from leading social innovators, on the future of work, universal basic income, reforming the way we bank and invest, why we vote the way we do, saving the oceans, saving democracy, and much more. Featured: Former California Governor candidate Amanda Renteria USC/UC Berkeley Professor Dan Schnur Purpose-driven marketing pioneer Drew Train Future of work experts Katie Caves,...
Amanda Renteria: How to Create Impact in the Public & Private Sectors
September 04, 2018 16:20 - 53 minutes - 72.8 MBRaised in a farmworking family, Amanda Renteria has worked for Goldman Sachs, the City of San Jose, and two senators; has been a teacher and coach at her old high school; has run for Congress; held a top position in Hillary Clinton’s presidential campaign; directed operations for the California Department of Justice and this year, ran for Governor of California. Through it all, she’s been focused on just how you get good things done: trying to bridge the private sector’s focus on results w...